Titans Training Camp

We took Parkes down to see Titans training camp on Saturday. The real highlight for him was getting to ride the bus to and from our car. We didn't get to stay around long enough to try to get autographs which Brandon really wanted Parkes to have (I think it was more for him) so he's going to take Parkes back one afternoon.

Funny Story

Thought I would share this story that made Brandon and I laugh while Parkes is at VBS. The other day I got a craving for Waffle House (don't ask...I haven't been there since after the first Poison concert Brandon and I went to 6 years ago when we first started dating). Well, Parkes loves it. It is his new favorite restaurant since he can watch them cook. So while we were there this lady that works there starts talking to Parkes and then starts saying how he looks so familiar and she knows she has meet him before...a little strange as Parkes is never without me or Brandon so we know she couldn't know him, but we just nicely nod our heads and smile. Well she continues and then looks at me as if Brandon is not sitting right next to Parkes and they don't look just alike and says "I know his father is a real tall man, right?" Brandon and I try not to laugh as we tell her that Brandon is the dad, and she says oh yeah I guess they look alike.

Anyway, Parkes is having a wonderful time at VBS and cries when he has to leave telling me how he wants to go back to school so I'm going to look to get him into their preschool. I will take some pictures soon to post as I haven't taken many lately, but here's one from awhile back of Parkes petting a donkey.

Parkes is back home

Well after one long, quiet week Parkes is back home. He had a great time visiting his grandparents and Aunt Brittany, but as he told me today he had to come home because he missed mommy and daddy. Then he added that Daisy (our dog who is not too fond of Parkes and who will probably have to go back on doggie prozac before we have the second child) missed him too.

We went today to the Adventure Science Center with some friends, Virginia and Lucy. Although, Parkes was a little too young for most things there and he was afraid of the dinosaurs, he still had a good time climbing around on the ambulance and going down the intestines slide which made some lovely noises. He did, however, talk about the big T-Rex the whole way home as if he had loved it. He will be heading to a VBS the end of this week at a church near our home (the last VBS I tried to get him in we got a call the day before saying he couldn't go unless he was potty trained so I made sure it was okay on this one) so this will be a test to see if i want to try to get him in some kind of school or wait until the next year.

Quiet House

We dropped Parkes off yesterday with his Pappy, Oma and Aunt Brittany for a few days to a week depending on how it goes. He was so excited telling us that Mommy and Daddy needed to stay home and just he would go. He likes to be very independent. He has in the last week decided to sleep on the hardwood floors with just his blanket so hopefully that will help his stay since they are still waiting for US Customs to release their furniture to them. This leaves a very quiet house for me and Brandon which was very clear when we woke up this morning to an alarm instead of the sound of Parkes yelling at his door that he was ready for the gate to come off and for Daddy to make his waffle (Mommy does not make it as good). But this is giving Brandon and I the time to get some progress done on the house (which Brandon did not meet my deadline of sleeping upstairs by the end of my first trimester which is in two days). So today I have been going through boxes to organize them into plastic bins to put in the new attic space and hopefully Brandon will get the rest of the drywall hung so we can start mudding it. We have made a lot of progress in what will be Parkes' room in unloading a lot of the boxes of storage that has been in there by either selling it in a yard sale or on craigslist.com...I have even gotten Brandon to sell some of his beloved Alabama collection which he has always told me would be grounds for a divorce if I ever sold it, and he is still going to go through and sell some of his Alabama pictures and poker table (I told him he could get a fold up table top version) so if anyone is interested let us know. Here's a couple pictures of what will be the master bedroom side of the master suite.

First Haircut

Yes you read it correctly...we made it two years and 7 months without a haircut. I was going to try to make it until he was three but Sunday when I put his baseball hat on he had hair down to his sholders coming out from under it so we decided it was time. The funny thing is Parkes has been asking for a haircut for as long as he has been able to talk. He was so excited about it. We didn't get much taken off because I didn't want to loss his curls which without he would really be Brandon's mini-me. We thought about going to Snip-Its but with him so excited we figured he wouldn't need all the distractions and instead went by the house to Jeff who use to cut Brandon's hair at Heads Up (many guys might recognize him because I think every guy in the area gets their haircut by him because they can talk sports with him).

And here's Parkes after his haircut with his certificate.

Fireworks are Scary

Parkes was scared of the fireworks this year which is so funny because a year and a half ago when we went to aruba for new year's the fireworks didn't bother him at all, but instead he enjoyed watching them. And in aruba they don't have the fireworks we have here...they are just rows of dynamite and it sounds like you are in a war zone when they set them off. The biggest one we saw while we were down there had 3 million fireworks on it and lasted 15 minutes to go off. Here's Brandon and his brother,Brian, with just a small 500,000 firework.

Then last 4th he liked the fireworks as well, but this year we went outside to do some fireworks with the neighbors and the first one that went off he started crying and said that he wanted to go inside. So for the rest of the night this is how we watched Daddy set off the fireworks.

We went this past weekend to visit Parkes grandparents, Pappy and Oma (which is the native arubian language word for grandma), that just moved back to Lexington, TN from Aruba. Parkes had a blast especially since their furniture has still not made it yet so he had a whole empty house to run around and play with his cars which he was very excited to get four new cars from his Aunt Brittany. I forgot to take my camera so I will have to get pictures of our next visit. He did get this polo he has on in the picture from Oma which he wore yesterday to see Grammy (my mom), Uncle Brad and Aunt Hayley after they got back from Disney World and happened to match perfectly with the hat they got him from Animal Kingdom and his safari Mickey. They, also, got him a green "purse" as he calls it full of animals. He has been obssessed with making sure he has his purse on his shoulder everywhere he goes...it has made his Daddy very proud. Needless to say Parkes has been spoiled here lately.